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I’m not sure what exactly is going on here. Brush fire? This is in Kansas. Wanna bet he smoked his drive? 

 

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Is this considered a warm-up hole? 

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Courses will burn native areas to generate new growth, our greenskeeper considered it a $$ savings as opposed to mowing costs.
One year it took out a grove of Pines and then stopped using the burn method.

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34 minutes ago, Club Rat said:

Courses will burn native areas to generate new growth, our greenskeeper considered it a $$ savings as opposed to mowing costs.
One year it took out a grove of Pines and then stopped using the burn method.

How do you control the burn though? From getting out of hand? Or there are natural boundaries where the fire burns out?

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The guy before always stubbed his tee shot into the right rough. Next time out it won't be an issue 🙂

 


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1 hour ago, nevets88 said:

How do you control the burn though? From getting out of hand? Or there are natural boundaries where the fire burns out?

Usually they only burn areas confined by adjacent fairways and keep the fire controlled using the sprinkler systems.
He will have a couple workers around the areas with water hoses also to wet or douse out spots.
They also keep the areas to a minimum and mostly burn various areas which are difficult to mow which a brush hog.

They do this over several days and in small areas at a time.

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Controlled burn.

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31 minutes ago, David in FL said:

Controlled burn.

I was going to say this. Native Americans have been doing it for thousands of years.

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11 hours ago, nevets88 said:

How do you control the burn though? From getting out of hand? Or there are natural boundaries where the fire burns out?

In northern Michigan, they didn't!   

This was a few days ago:

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IOSCO COUNTY, Mich. — A controlled burn operation in Iosco County has burned out of control, according to Michigan State Police.

It has since been declared a wildfire, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

MSP says the wildfire is only 20 to 30 percent contained and that dozens of residents have been evacuated.

The U.S. Forest Service explains that while immediate response was made, the wildfire has grown to more than 6,000 acres in size.

We’re told further evacuations are taking place in Sid Town as well as the Wilber power line area.

 

 

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Every controlled burn is under control until it's no longer under control. From that point it's just a burn.

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a couple years ago a couple kids thought it would be funny to shoot off fireworks in a nature reserve in high fire season. Google Images the following:

"columbia river gorge golfers fire"

 

this is just one example of what you will see

 

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Well, penalty area.

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This was near me in 2002

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